title: Deuterobiosphere the chemosynthetic second biosphere of the globe. A first review.
abstract: With the discovery of Ophel, a chemosynthesis-based continental subterranean environment (Por 2007), it became evident that such environments, previously known only from the sea, are spanning the world as a parallel biosphere, the deuterobiosphere. In this preliminary contribution the different known biomes of the deuterobiosphere are reviewed and some general and comparative features are listed.
authors.affiliation: The Scientific Collections, The Life Sciences Institute, The Hebrew University, Israel.
authors.forename: Francis D
authors.initials: FD
authors.lastname: Por